07-12-2016 23:17 via nytimes.com

Robert A. Wilson, 94, Whose Bookshop Was Poets’ Sanctuary, Dies

Among the figures he knew as owner of the Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village were Gertrude Stein, W.H. Auden, William S. Burroughs, Edward Albee, Allen Ginsberg and Patti Smith.
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